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John Byrne Cooke strides across Washington Square, a place familiar to him because he lived around the corner of 45 years ago when he was road manager for Big Brother and the Holding Company.

"The guys in Big Brother all wanted to know why I didn't live in the Haight," he says, "and I told them 'I'm a beatnik, not a hippie.'"